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Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard
This is truly poetry in the American grain. Costanzo looks unflinchingly at our totems, artifacts and folkways, and sets them down just as they are, with a deadly but affectionate irony.--Carolyn Kizer
Regular Haunts
Gerald Costanzo, long known as one of the best contemporary poets of satire, focuses specifically on American themes that, though presented as parables, fables, jokes, and put-ons, remain darkly serious in tone. His subject is the mythic landscape of America itself: the transitory, popular, consumer culture of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century life. Costanzo evokes a sense of having arrived on the scene too late, of having missed the heyday of American innocence and possibility, and now—in the present—is forced to live with diminished experience. He mourns a culture where genuine emotion cannot be found but where its semblance can be endlessly marketed. Regular Haunts is a retrospective collection of Costanzo’s work that also includes nearly thirty new poems.
American Poetry
Gerald Costanzo's most recent books are Nobody Lives on Arthur Godfrey Boulevard and The Devins Award Poetry Anthology. He has taught in the English Department at Carnegie Mellon for thirty years. Jim Daniels is director of the Creative Writing Program at Carnegie Mellon. His books of poems include Blessing the House and Blue Jesus. His collection of stories, No Pets, was published in 1999. This anthology is a compilation of the work of more than 170 poets under the age of forty who have already published at least one book with a trade, university, or independent publisher. In an era of 'National Poetry Month' and of the 'Favorite Poem Project, ' it's probably not an original notion to set out to edit an anthology of younger poets.... But in fact it has been 25 years since poets in the 'under forty' age group have been comprehensively anthologized.
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Regular Haunts
Gerald Costanzo, long known as one of the best contemporary poets of satire, focuses specifically on American themes that, though presented as parables, fables, jokes, and put-ons, remain darkly serious in tone. His subject is the mythic landscape of America itself: the transitory, popular, consumer culture of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century life. Costanzo evokes a sense of having arrived on the scene too late, of having missed the heyday of American innocence and possibility, and now--in the present--is forced to live with diminished experience. He mourns a culture where genuine emotion cannot be found but where its semblance can be endlessly marketed. Regular Haunts is a retrospective collection of Costanzo's work that also includes nearly thirty new poems.
Vital Signs
This anthology includes 179 poets published by university presses in recent years. It seeks to provide a rich overview of the best contemporary American poetry irrespective of publisher, age of poet, aesthetic program, or current status in the literary canon; to celebrate the work of university presses in discovering and supporting that poetry; and to suggest some questions about American poetry--its democratization, canonization, aesthetics, politics, and sociology. The volume includes brief histories of poetry publishing at each press, their poetry lists, and an essay on the American poetry scene of the last 20 years. It features poems by such established poets as John Ashbery, Marge Piercy, Adrienne Rich, and James Wright. ISBN 0-299-12160-7: $29.95.
The Devins Award Poetry Anthology
This anthology consists of four to nine poems from each of the 21 winners of the Devins Award. The poets include Nancy Willard, Jonathan Holden, Diana O'Hehir, C.G. Hanzlicek, Mary Kinzie, and Wesley McNair.
The Carnegie Mellon Anthology of Poetry
"A retrospective selection of 20 years of publishing, including poems from the Carnegie Mellon Poetry Series, Three Rivers Poetry Journal and the Carnegie Mellon Classic Contemporaries"--Cover.
Great Disguise
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